Friday, January 26, 2007

Shots? What shots?

Lies and the lying liarsThe UN mission in Haiti says four people were killed when its peacekeepers expanded their presence in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince. A spokesman said six other people were injured in what he described as exchanges of fire with criminals.
On Wednesday, when the operation took place, another UN spokesman had said there had been no reports of casualties or much of a reaction to the operation.
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